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A comment on Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests. Parent comment

Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by nalllar on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:34PM (#23694464)
> Do you expect police to just stand around and wait until people feel like following lawful orders?

Yes? If they're incapable of enforcing their orders without hurting people they should not be trying to enforce them.

It's bloody alien seeing Americans arguing over this sort of thing as if there's a context that makes hurting the people you're sworn to protect okay. The rest of the world seems to understand what the point of police is.

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Re:Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd... by monocasa on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:11PM (#23694826)
Well, one point is that police here aren't in fact sworn to protect members of the populace. The case law in federal court is that the police don't owe any individual a specific duty to protect them, and that "protect and serve" is a toothless slogan with no basis in law.
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